Weird Irritation of the Urethra

They put me on doxycycline for hsv-1 received from oral, which have reduced the symptoms to almost nothing. It has been almost 4 weeks since the symptoms started and I am starting to feel like my normal self. My symptoms were testicular pain, frequent urination, redness tip of penis, flu-like symptoms, and swollen lymph nodes.

This doesn't make sense. Doxy is for bacterial infections. HSV-1 (Herpes) is a viral infection so Doxy would not have any effect. Are you sure the HSV is the cause of the problem? If the MD prescribed Doxy, you must have something bacterial. Please follow up.

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Symptoms are constant irritation at end of urethra. Not painful at all. Never hurts to pee. Perenial pain and pain in rectum. Have had a week of doxy. 1g aithrmycin and all the cipro I mentioned. Gonna ask urologist to do a 3 glad test. Only ever had mid stream urine taken and nothing was ever found.

Similar symptoms, similar sexual past (unprotected oral), similar treatments (antibiotics, etc., to no avail), have had this for 2+ years. Worst at beginning. Tapering gradually over time, but still recurring and almost always "there". Urologist swears I have nothing. I finally took one for the team & let him stick a camera up urethra all the way to bladder (quite uncomfortable). Nothing found. He's basically leaving it as undiagnosable; the kinds of symptoms for which current medicine has no diagnosis and no treatment. I've felt better since the exam but still feel like another recurrence is just around the corner. I would never wish this on anyone, but apparently we need some doctors or drug company execs to come down with this in order for it to be taken seriously and addressed. Good luck, everyone.

Everyone here should get a urethral swab for hsv. Prolonged pain resistant to antibiotics is either viral or fungal. Please get swabbed people

Thanks for the suggestion about hsv. I wrote the previous post (begins "Similar symptoms ..." and several before. I got tested for that (and the full suite of standard tests) a few months after exposure in early 2013. Are there other viruses or fungi you can think of that we should get tested for, or for which some general treatment might be appropriate? Thanks!

I had protected vaginal and unprotected oral and have the same recurring symptoms as eceryone else here. Std tests are all negative, doctor diagnosed me with prostatis and put me ok doxy for 2 weeks. Every time it flares up is after ai have sex with my girl friend. She is now experiencing flu like symptoms a week or so after mine. I have "discoloration" at the bottom of m shaft which ive noticed for 2 weeks now which the doctor is telling me isnt herpes and just this morning i woke up to a bursted bubble on the bottom of my gums. I had a constant feeling in my urethra for the past few days which was followed by the stinging sensation in m y urethra after i had sex with my girlfriend. I noticed that the constant feeling in my urethra basically went away after i drank plenty of water and 100% cranberry juice. I also took advil last night. Good luck to all.

Guys I'm glad I found this thread.
I'm from Bulgaria (not that it matters).
A couple of months ago, just like everyone else here, had protected vaginal/unprotected oral with a girl. She has a boyfriend for 2 years, and he doesn't have complaints. She had recently been to a gynocologist, everything is fine with her.

When she was finishing me orally, she kind of jerked me off quite a bit too rough. 2-3 days later I notice redness around the tip, slight pinching sensation right at the tip, not the urethra. Went to my doctor, gave me some antibiotics. Don't think it helped, but he looked at it and said the redness is probably some slight infection. He was pretty confident the antibiotics would help. After I finished them, the redness didn't go away. Went to see him again, he said it would go away with time. After that I think from the antibiotics I developed a bit of an yeast infection, but that's pretty normal for me, I often get red dots on the head of the penis from unprotected sex, around winter time when my immune system is low, I think I'm just very sensitive to female vaginal flora. I've had that with almost every girl I've been with unprotected at least the first time. It goes away with some anti-fungal cream on which I'm always stacked up. This time the red dots did not go away as easy, but what got them removed was a combination of home treatment - some baking soda in a small glass of water, you put your penis in it for a couple of minutes to balance the PH levels of the skin. Then you don't wash it, just put it away in your pants. However I combined it with my anti-fungal cream, and just the next morning almost everything had disappeared. Within 2-3 days it all went away.

Days went by, everything fine. I had sex with the same girl again protected vaginal, unprotected oral....again I flared up, not that much, but just like the start redness around the tip, light pinching sensation for some days. Didn't have sex, and masturbated frequently, it went away, but the redness still stays, but I don't feel anything wrong.

So this has gone on like this the past 2 months, if I masturbate, it's fine, if I have sex...I feel the pinching sensation on the tip right after. I had unprotected vaginal/oral sex with the same girl 2-3 days ago, in 2 separate days. It think it was fine after those, but I just had sex a few hours ago with another girl and I feel the pinching sensation again. WEIRD AF!

Also since this all started, I've had some paint/discomfort a few times, in one or the other testicles, as one person here said - after hard sex, or after not masturbating for a few days and then doing it. Apparently strong ejaculation triggers something. Also tonight when we went to bed, I felt something for the 3rd time I've felt, ever since this thing started - as I go to bed, suddenly I feel like I need to poop really badly, but I don't actually....just this hard tightness around the anus. Which leads me to believe it has something to do with the prostate. A year ago I had an inflamed prostate, again I don't even know from what, but then I had discharge, and slight burning when peeing in the morning. The discharge was at first white, but over a month it started becoming more clear, I was in Brussels, and the doctor there was complete sh*t, but when I went back home my doctor immediately looked at my prostate with a machine and found it enlarged. Gave me some antibiotics and ...well I guess this is something like this Prosta Q you guys are talking about, but in Bulgaria we have Prostenal Perfect. This combination fixed everything for me last year.

This year it's something different though. However I don't have ANY discharge, and some of the pains you guys are explaining sound very severe, for me it's very slight, but I can feel something is wrong. Also I feel the slight pinching sensation on the left side of the opening of the penis, and there, as someone said I feel like I'm seeing a small, pencil tip sized, a little darkish bump. When I touch it, I don't feel anything strange.

I wrote down some suggestions from you guys here, and I'll go to the doctor tomorrow and discuss them with him. I'll get him to check my prostate again, and maybe give me something for it. I'll also try and look into the Vitamin C suggestion.

As a last note I should add, that over the past months/year I've been drinking A LOT. Like a few liters of beer a night. Or 500ml of strong alcohol. Maybe this has upset my PH levels, and maybe that's why the baking soda in water worked. I'll try this again tonight as I'm typing this, because I again felt this strong pressure around my prostate I guess and got up from the bed telling the girl I'm going to poop, but because I was thinking about all this pinching sensation on the tip, I decided to go online and found this thread.

Guys last night I did this trick with soaking the head of the penis for a few minutes in a glass of water and baking soda. Went to bed, the pinching sensation went away within a few minutes. The redness around the tip is gone this morning too. I feel normal. Worth a try I guess? Worst case scenario, it does nothing for you.

This was one person here's suggestion - messed up PH levels.

How much baking soda? How long did you soak for?

Hey new here, got it same way unprotected oral, protected sex...I got the burning and urge to pee sensation about a week after tho..are negative. I have no pain or discharge, just the annoying burning in penis...decided to clean diet up and treat it as a yeast infection..lots of water, cranberry, no booze, no sugar, tried yogurt(no sugar, live culture), I'd put coconut oil on penis...within a few days I was fully heal, then I resume regular diet and it came back but very mild sensation only if I focus on penis I feel it's there...I'm still stressing about it which doesn't help the cause. My genital area would get very heated at night once under the cover..I don't know what's the cause for all this...right now the sensation is like a 1 maybe 2...I've been reading other forum on medhelp...seems many has this too! I'm scared to have sex that I may pass it on.....did anyone have sex with this and what's the status?

hello sir ! i also have have same symptoms. had a unprotected oral sex. after few days irritation on tip started. tested for all std's and came back negative.
my question ? are you having sex with your new partner without a problem ? am considering getting married but i am afraid.

What did it end up being?

Ever find out the problem. Same symptoms of me n my significant other as u n verycoolcat

any updates guys?